Now, as Black History Month draws to a close, we present a Learning Network first: a slide show of images that appears only on our blog. (As regular readers know, we ordinarily “borrow” current images and articles from all over NYTimes.com and suggest ways to teach and learn with them.)

To find the images, we turned to The Times’s archivist Jeff Roth, who combed the paper’s picture library to find photos with which most readers would not already be familiar.

Mr. Roth looked for photos that would reveal important moments in civil rights history or that could illuminate the era in some other interesting way. Together, we made the final selection by choosing images we thought would be fertile ground for student analysis and inquiry. Finally, Amy Padnani, a Times producer, took over to create the slide show.

Rather than providing extensive lesson ideas, we want to let the photographs speak for themselves. But we will leave you with a very few resources that might complement what you see here:

MLK realized that elections were a process that was pure enough that ex-slaves could join and have a reasonable chance to fight for their rights. Elections are the cornerstone of the relative internal unity this country has had since 1776. Only the US survived since that date. All other countries crumbled around us, not because we are stronger but because of 230 years of elections on time. Please read my website…

Very nice spread of photos about the civil rights era. Would have like to see more from New York City. Take a look at the Seward Park High School Alumni Association website at the Looking Back tab for photos of the New York City school boycott picket line on Feb 3, 1964. This was one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in American history when nearly half a million of New York City’s 1,000,000 students boycotted for a day in favor of integrated schools. Here’s a link://www.sewardparkhs.com/lookingback.php